File 6/5 - Slade School of Fine Art

The file comprises a photocopy of the first entry for Augustus John in the fee register of the Faculty of Arts & Laws at The University College, London, 1894-1895, a note of his academic achievements and prizes for 1895-1898, and Ida Margaret Nettleship's entry, 1893; sections from the unpublished autobiography of the Hon. Dorothy Brett; articles relating to the Slade; biographical note on Sir William Orpen, together with a photocopy of a BBC talk 'The Slade School in the nineties' by Ethel Hatch first transmitted on 17 November 1967. -- Also included is an original poster for the campaign 'Desecration of Saint Paul's', [1899], addressed to 'the art students of London', which features as an appendix in the Augustus John biography, and papers relating to the case of Sheila Nansi Ivor-Jones, a student at the Slade, who claimed that she was the illegitimate daughter of Augustus John, including copies of her birth certificate, 1912, and death certificate, 1949.